@love It always drives me nuts to see a YouTube video with high production values - excellent expensive cameras, careful cinematography, vibrant tone mapping - and then they have automatic subtitles.
Just extend that commitment to excellence a TINY bit farther and either author subtitles or hire a caption service. We've hired professional caption services at work a few times when we needed live captions and they're shockingly affordable.
@mausmalone @love Yes!
@mausmalone @love YES. For minor amateur makers like me*, it isn't important, but for any company or individual that has spent time and money on doing decent video, this should be a simple decision, like having a title screen and crediting others properly. *This subject isn't really applicable to me, as I just upload simple, usually one take, video of me playing my uke and singing. But if I were to do an explanatory or tuition video in future, I'd consider this as part of the creative process.
Oct 8, 2026, 5:47 PM@UkeleleEric @mausmalone @love another issue is YT auto subtitles often mangle any kind of regional accent (they default to on for a lot of videos these days) and last night I saw them making a total pigs ear of what a lad from Yorkshire was saying..
@vfrmedia @UkeleleEric @love Oh absolutely. As a hearing person I can get around it because I have a sense of what words *sound like* other words. But I have to imagine it's much more of a hindrance for the deaf.
My pet nit with Mentour Pilot.